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NAME

       abps - Adaptive Poisson Boltzmann Solver

SYNOPSIS

       apbs [options] parameters-file

DESCRIPTION

       The apbs command calculates electrostatic potentials, energies, and forces using both multigrid and finite element methods.

OPTIONS

       At the moment, the following options are supported:

       --output-file=<name>
	      Enables output logging to the path listed in <name>.  Uses flat-file format if --output-format is not used.

       --output-format=<type>
	      Specifies format for logging.  Options for <type> are either "xml" or "flat".

       --help Display this help information.

       --version
	      Display the current apbs version.

EXAMPLES

       apbs apbs.in > apbs.out 2> apbs.err

CITATION

       Please cite APBS as follows:

	   Baker  NA,  Sept D, Joseph S, Holst MJ, McCammon JA. Electrostatics of nanosystems: application to microtubules and the ribosome. Proc.
	   Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 10037-10041 2001.

SEE ALSO

       For more information read the user guide and/or the tutorial found online at http://apbs.wustl.edu/.

AUTHORS

       apbs was written by Nathan A. Baker <baker@biochem.wustl.edu>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

apbs								     July 2009								   APBS(1)